Doug Chatham wrote on Sun, Feb 26, 2006 04:43 PM UTC:
David,
Yeah, King-and-Pawn endings would be a problem with my 'promote-only-to-live-species' rule. Either one would have to make some sort of exception, like 'When there's nothing left but Pawns and Kings, then you can promote to anything' or 'A Pawn can always promote to a ..er.. Man' -- or one would have to somehow shorten the game so that Pawn-and-King endgames never occurred (e.g Extinction Chess, which follows my rule in a trivial sense).
Yeah, King-and-Pawn endings would be a problem with my 'promote-only-to-live-species' rule. Either one would have to make some sort of exception, like 'When there's nothing left but Pawns and Kings, then you can promote to anything' or 'A Pawn can always promote to a ..er.. Man' -- or one would have to somehow shorten the game so that Pawn-and-King endgames never occurred (e.g Extinction Chess, which follows my rule in a trivial sense).